The team is preparing to compete at Winter Olympics. The players are from Canada and the U.S., but they all share Jamaican heritage. Unlike the iconic 1988 bobsledders, this ice hockey team has a bit more experience. These guys have been playing hockey their whole lives, many of them playing in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).

Over the weekend, the players of Jamaican descent also played against a team with prominent local players and community leaders from diverse backgrounds from the Halifax area at said Sportsplex the day before.

Former Boston Bruin player Graeme Townshend, who was born in Kingston, has hopes to coach Jamaica’s national hockey team all the way to the Winter Olympics.